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"I've gotten some feedback from it, and people often tell us that's how they found us," Vallejo says of the widget business registry. "We do a lot of gluten free and vegetarian options and a lot of people, especially from out of town and just visiting the area, have told us that the Sparks widget was how they found out about us."
According to City of Sparks Community Relations Manager Adam Mayberry, such promotion was the name of the game when the city initiated a technological overhaul, starting about two years ago. Included in the update were a new and improved website design, the region's first smart phone application, and a "widget," organizational application of local businesses, available on both.
Launched two years ago, the City of Sparks website redesign was intended to increase website traffic by creating a fun, interactive and user-friendly interface. The website homepage allows both locals and visitors quick access to upcoming event information, regional news, weather updates and social media links, and upon further search, subcategories allow access to everything from submitting citizen requests to planning a trip to the region. In essence, it's a one-stop-shop for Sparks needs.
In early 2012, Sparks further increased its digital presence by becoming the first local government to introduce an official city app. As of July 31, "Sparks, NV" had been downloaded on digital devices over 2,500 times. As technology evolves, Mayberry believes that keeping up is elemental to the city's success.
"Clearly more and more people of all ages and backgrounds are using mobile devices to get their information. This is just another tool in our toolbox that we can use to promote what's happening in our city," he said.
The digital widget included on both the website homepage and the app allows local businesses to categorize themselves on an interactive registry of regional attractions. Not only does it provide free publicity for the business, Mayberry says, but it's also a key tool in providing visitors with information about what the area has to offer.
"There are a lot of things happening in this city, and we need our businesses to help us use the widget to promote themselves and the area," he said. "There are a lot of hidden gems in Sparks."
Businesses like Sunset Cove provide testament to the potential of Spark's technological innovation. However, not all businesses have seen the same degree of promotional success.
Wendy Keller, owner of Paper Daisies scrapbooking supply store says that new clients she sees in the store have only ever attributed their visit to word of mouth or random happenstance. However, after adding the business to the widget, only within the last several months, she remains optimistic about the possibility of increased visitation and widget-driven sales in the future.
"Honestly, I have to say no," Keller said when asked if widget subscription has driven visitation or sales success. "If I see new customers who haven't been in before, I always ask and it doesn't seem like we have … but it can't hurt to try."
Mayberry says that in the long run, the hope is that technological updates and an increased number of tools available to promote Sparks as an events destination will translate to increased area tourism, and a resulting increase in the fiscal stability of the Rail City region.
"Information over the long run can translate to added revenue … particularly when the city has been promoting itself more and more throughout the region as the "events capital of the Northwest," Mayberry said. "Having these tools to help us get our information out there is very important."
Gary Ferrick, a 71-year Sparks resident, believes that this change has already begun. A self-proclaimed technological "dinosaur," he doesn't pretend to have kept up with the City's increased presence on a digital domain, however from what he can see in the physical world, the city he knows and loves has really harnessed the potential for development through its enthusiasm for events.
"I think Sparks does a momentous job of events. They've got the farmers markets, the Rib Cook Off … I think that Sparks is better off financially that Reno because of it," Ferrick said.
Both Mayberry and Ferrick believe that positive signs of economic growth are emerging. Prime indications, Mayberry says, include additional events, more use of regional parks such as the Golden Eagle Regional Park and development projects like the reopening of the former Silver Club as Bourbon Street Casino, the IMAX theater to be instituted at Legends and a coming Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant.
Although hesitant to attribute recent growth solely to the success of the "It's Happening Here" campaign lead by the city Brand Leadership Team, technology, or a statewide trend of economic recovery, Mayberry says one thing is for sure: Sparks is finding its footing.
"We're not out of the woods yet. The real message as to where Sparks stands in the economic recovery is that we're stabilized," Mayberry said. "We're seeing things come back to life. Slowly, but surely."


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Urologic Diseases Research Updates
Summer 2010
NIDDK Information Products Receive 14 Plain Language Awards
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) publications, websites, and other informational products have been honored with 14 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Plain Language Awards. The annual awards program, now in its 10th year, honors communication products that help the NIH reach all Americans with health information they can use and research results they can easily understand.
NIDDK resources-including publications, radio reports, and web-based materials-received five Bronze, five Silver, and four Gold awards. The winning publications included easy-to-read materials designed for Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking audiences.
More than 300 nominations were submitted for this year's awards, and the winners were announced during a ceremony May 26. Information about the NIH Plain Language Awards program and a list of winning entries is available at www.nih.gov/clearcommunication/plainlanguage.htm.
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High Tower Apartments
Excerpt From Echo Park (Photo by Wendy Werris) Bosch stepped out from beneath the overhead door and looked up at the High Tower apartments. It was a place unique to Hollywood. A conglomeration of apartments built into the extruded granite of the hills behind the Hollywood Bowl. They were of Streamline Moderne design and all linked at the center by the slim structure that housed the elevator—the high tower for which the street and complex took its name. Bosch had lived in this neighborhood for a time as a boy. From his home on nearby Camrose he could hear the orchestras practicing in the bowl on summer days. If he stood on the roof he could see the fireworks on the Fourth and at the close of the season. At night he had seen the windows on the High Tower glowing with light. He'd see the elevator pass in front of them on its way up, delivering another person home. He had thought as a boy that living in a place where you took an elevator home had to be the height of luxury.


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Police: Man found sleeping in restaurant restroom arrested twice8:57 am | October 18, 2012
A man who police say was sleeping in the restroom of the Elizabethton McDonald's has been arrested twice in the past week.
Jimmy F. Mercer, 56, was arrested early Friday morning on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. Officer Jordan Ensor of the Elizabethton Police Department said officers had been called to the restaurant, at 215 Broad Street, in reference to a male subject sleeping in the bathroom.
"Upon arrival, I went into the bathroom and noticed a sleeping bag in the floor of the stall," Ensor said.


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Richmond eco-friendly hotel near Virginia State Capitol
Crowne Plaza Richmond Downtown is centrally located in Richmond, walking distance from American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar and close to Richmond St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
This eco-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Richmond Old City Hall and Virginia State Capitol.
Make yourself at home in one of the 298 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Your room comes with a Select Comfort bed. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
Be sure to enjoy recreational amenities, including an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access and gift shops/newsstands.
Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 2 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include a business center, express check-out, and secretarial services. Planning an event in Richmond? This hotel has 13005 square feet (1208 square meters) of space consisting of conference/meeting rooms and small meeting rooms. Parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
- General
In addition to an indoor pool, Crowne Plaza Richmond Downtown provides a sauna and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a business center, secretarial services, and small meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 13005 square feet (1208 square meters) include conference/meeting rooms. This eco-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite parking is available (surcharge). A total renovation of this property was completed in January 2012.
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Total number of rooms - 298
- Number of floors - 16
- ATM/banking
- Parking (surcharge)
- Self parking (surcharge)
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- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Business services
- Coffee shop or café
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Event catering
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 1208
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 13
- Year Built 1986
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 13005
- Sauna
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Swimming pool - indoor
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Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi, Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
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- Premium TV channels
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- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Air conditioning
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- Direct-dial phone
- Refrigerator
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- Microwave (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- Connecting / adjoining rooms available
- Dining
Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Crowne Plaza Richmond Downtown has 2 restaurants on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
- Recreation
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Braille or raised signage
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- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Self parking fee: USD 12.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 17.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Additional Details
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
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- A Green / Sustainable Property - First Party CertifiedThis property has performed a self-assessment, also known as First Party certification, of its sustainable tourism practices through Virginia Green Lodging thus taking steps to understand its impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. The property's claims have not been independently verified by a second or third party certification program.


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I've had a Yahoo! Mail account since before Google became a verb – or a noun, for that matter – and I still use it for certain purposes, so when Yahoo! recently announced improvements to the service, it caught my attention. Available starting this week, Yahoo! has given iPad users of their Mail service a shot in the arm with a new, HTML5-driven mobile web interface. Yahoo! released a similar update for iPhone compatibility around the beginning of July, so it only makes sense that the iPhone's bigger sibling is getting similar treatment.
As part of the update, Yahoo! promises:
· Faster and more reliable: If you're offline, Yahoo! Mail uses local caching capabilities to help you access and search your messages even without an internet connection.
· Smart: You can find and organize your messages using Full Search, personal folders and Smart Folders with messages from your most important contacts and optimized views for photos and file attachments.
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Año Nuevo State Park General Plan
General Plan and Other Actions
The California State Park and Recreation Commission met on October 31, 2008 at the Costanoa Coastal Lodge and Camp near Pescadero. The Commission approved the general plan for Año Nuevo State Natural Reserve and State Park. They also approved three actions proposed in the general plan: the consolidation of the natural reserve and state park into one park unit, named Año Nuevo State Park, classification of a cultural preserve within the park, and classification of a natural preserve in the coastal area of the park.
For more information on the proposals approved in the resolutions, see the preliminary general plan text, available for download below.
The final approved general plan, incorporating final changes and the commission resolution, is being prepared for publication.
The Preliminary General Plan and Final EIR Response to Comments are available for download below.
Año Nuevo State Park, on the San Mateo County coast, is renowned for its Northern Elephant Seal breeding grounds. But it also harbors spectacular scenery, several sensitive species, and reminders of an intriguing history. The park section on the ocean side of Highway 1 was formerly a separate park unit named Ano Nuevo State Natural Reserve (SNR).
The section formerly known as Año Nuevo State Park (SP) is on the inland side of the highway. It was acquired in 1985, but is not yet open to the public. Its 2900 acres encompass meadows, redwood forest, agricultural lands and a historic dairy ranch.
There had not been any comprehensive planning for the Natural Reserve since a 1979 general plan for San Mateo Coast park units. Changes in visitor numbers and use patterns, expanding awareness of sensitive species, and opportunities to create new connections with other nearby public lands prompted State Parks to develop a new plan for the State Natural Reserve in conjunction with the General Plan for Año Nuevo SP.
The Preliminary General Plan recommended that Año Nuevo SP and SNR be combined into a single state park unit, with an expansion of the current Natural Reserve Wildlife Protection Area and Año Nuevo Island to be classified as a Natural Preserve. The California Park and Recreation Commission approved the combining of the two parks and the classification of the Natural Preserve on October 31, at the same meeting where they approved the general plan. The general plan for the combined park establishes a long-term vision, identifies potential recreation and facilities, and guides future park management, resource stewardship, and appropriate public use.
The General Plan also serves as a Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). In fulfillment of CEQA guidelines, California State Parks filed the Año Nuevo SNR Notice of Preparation (PDF, 1.9 MB) and Año Nuevo SP Notice of Preparation (PDF, 1.9 MB) at the beginning of of the General Plan/ EIR development, and a Notice of Availability (PDF, 92 KB) and Notice of Completion (PDF, 218 KB) for both park units to announce the beginning of the EIR public review period. After the commission approved the plan, State Parks filed a Notice of Determination (PDF, 92 KB) on November 5, 2008.
Public input and feedback is an important part of the CEQA process. Members of the public reviewed and commented on the Preliminary General Plan/Draft EIR during the public comment period, from March 28, 2008 to May 12, 2008. The comments and responses are included in the Final EIR, available for viewing and download below. The public was also able to comment at the California State Park and Recreation Commission hearing on the plan.
The Final General Plan document, not yet compiled, will consist of the approved preliminary general plan with changes resulting from public and staff comments, and the Park and Recreation Commission's resolutions approving the plan and associated classification recommendations.
Park and Recreation Commission Resolutions
General Plan Approval (190 KB)
Approval of Reclassification (197 KB)
Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve Approval (170 KB)
Coastal Natural Preserve Approval (170 KB)
Preliminary General Plan and Final EIR Documents
The Preliminary General Plan and Final EIR/Response to Comments are available for download below. The final general plan will be posted when it is compiled. The general plan has been divided into four plan sections and individual figures for downloading. All files are in PDF format.
Front Cover through Chapter 1:Introduction (1.1 MB)
(Includes table of contents and executive summary)
Chapter 2:Existing Conditions through Chapter 3:Issues (2.4 MB)
Chapter 4:Park Plan (PDF, 1.5 MB)
Chapter 5:Environmental Analysis through Plan Contributors (2.9 MB)
General Plan Maps (Document Figures):
Figure 1: Regional (1.3 MB)
Figure 2: Location (1.3 MB)
Figure 3: Existing Facilities (1.0 MB)
Figure 4: Existing Roads and Trails (1.8 MB)
Roads and Trails Key (127 KB)
Figure 5: Alquist-Priolo Fault Zones
Figure 6: Watersheds(2.0 MB)
Figure 7: Coastal Zone (656 KB)
Figure 8: Vegetation Communities (2.3 MB)
Figure 9: Wildlife Habitat (5.5 MB)
Figure 10: Natural Resource Sensitivity (3.5 MB)
Figure 11: Cultural Resources (484 KB)
Figure 12: Planning Zones (1.1 MB)
Figure 13: Año Nuevo SR Key Draft Proposals (735 KB)
Figure 14: Año Nuevo SP Key Draft Proposals (477 KB)
Figure 15: Proposed Preserves (1.1 MB)
Final Environmental Impact Report Response to Comments (1.2 MB)
Park and Recreation Commission Resolutions
Past Public Participation in the Planning Process
A public workshop was held during the early planning stages for Año Nuevo SP & SNR . Participants learned about the planning process, reviewed the resource data, and provided input on issues, concerns, and recommendations for the park's future. Using this input, the planning team developed alternatives and preliminary plan guidelines for public review.
On December 8, 2007, the planning team held a public open house in Pescadero to preview the draft plan proposal highlights for Año Nuevo SP & SNR and Butano SP, share information on the key natural and cultural resources identified in the planning process, update participants on the regional planning process and context, and gather further public input. The commission hearing on October 31, 2008, was another opportunity for public comment.
Regional Planning Approach
The Año Nuevo State Park (combined with the State Natural Reserve) General Plan was developed as part of a regional planning effort, along with general plans for Butano State Park and Big Basin Redwoods State Park. These parks share many natural and cultural characteristics, and have similar visitor demographics. Each one also has its own outstanding features and visitor opportunities. This planning process, while addressing each park's unique needs and assets, recognizes the potential for regional collaboration between these and other nearby public lands in resource protection, recreation, interpretation, and park management.
The Butano State Park Preliminary General Plan/Final EIR was presented to the commission at the same meeting as the Año Nuevo plan.. For more information, visit Butano State Park: General Plan In-Progress.
The Big Basin Redwoods SP General Plan will be completed sometime in 2010. For more information, see Big Basin Redwoods State Park: General Plan In-Progress.
For more information on the park units, visit the Año Nuevo State Natural Reserve and Año Nuevo State Park webpages.
Related Pages
California State Parks
Planning Division
P.O. Box 942896
Sacramento, CA
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Humidity is a measure of the amount of (invisible) water vapour or the degree of dampness in the atmosphere. If the relative humidity and temperatures are high the air feels damp and murky. It is the condensation of this vapour which gives rise to clouds, rain, snow, dew, frost and fog The limit to how much water vapour the air can hold varies with temperature. Warm air can hold more vapour than cold air. When the air contains the maximum amount of vapour possible for a particular temperature, the air is said to be saturated. Usually the air is not saturated, containing only a fraction of the possible water vapour.
The amount of vapour in the air can be expressed in a variety of ways. Absolute humidity indicates the actual amount of water vapour present in a sample of air, or the vapour concentration, the mass of water vapour in a given quantity of air. 1kg of air might hold up to 25 grams of water vapour in the tropics, but almost nothing in cold polar regions.
Specific humidity is the ratio between the amount of water vapour in air and the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapour.


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Review: Cracked Pepper in south Fargo does home-cooked comfort food wellFARGO - Many restaurants claim the home-cooked label for their own special take on comfort foods. Cracked Pepper doesn't brand itself as such, but those looking for home-cooked comfort food will find it at the lunch-only restaurant in south Fargo.
By: Eric Daeuber, Special to The Forum, INFORUM
FARGO - Many restaurants claim the home-cooked label for their own special take on comfort foods.
Cracked Pepper doesn't brand itself as such, but those looking for home-cooked comfort food will find it at the lunch-only restaurant in south Fargo.
While some restaurants celebrate a quarterly change of menu, Cracked Pepper changes every day, as your grandmother's menu probably does.
The menu includes four categories: a heavy-duty stick-to-your-ribs entree, an entree salad, one or two Panini sandwiches and a selection of wraps.
I can't say I'm a frequent connoisseur of hot roast turkey sandwiches on white bread with gravy and mashed potatoes. I had one once in a diner somewhere north of Bismarck and I barely remember it. But the one served at Cracked Pepper ($7.95) must have been better or I would have had another one since then.
The turkey is well herbed, properly seasoned and moist with or without gravy. It should be unnecessary to say the mashed potatoes were mashed from potatoes but, sadly, it is necessary. So let it be said that the mashed potatoes were mashed from real potatoes – unapologetically rich and served alongside a scoop of dressing that, had it not come out of the inside of a turkey, simulated it well enough.
These are not subtle entrees. That main spot is daily taken up by dishes like hamburger hot dish, hot roast beef, tater tot hot dish and wild rice and sausage. It may be that not much can go wrong with these dishes, but there is quite a bit that can go right, and generally, Cracked Pepper takes these details seriously.
Sweet, clean salsa and rich, full-fat sour cream dress fresh, crisp greens and tender spiced chicken in the Southwest Chicken Salad ($6.75).
Here and there you'll find a surprise that might not come out of Gram's kitchen. The Cuban sandwich ($5.95), with slow roasted pork and a nutty, sweet Swiss, cuts no Key West corners, and even purists could scoff at little more than the Panini press lines on the French bread.
There is only one dessert each day. In my case, it was an entirely acceptable oatmeal cake with caramel frosting.
The shortcomings at Cracked Pepper are a little hard to accept because they don't seem difficult to address. Real whipped cream would be nice. It would be good if the shredded cheddar cheese were more like, well, shredded cheddar cheese. The truly excellent roast turkey deserves better than prefab cranberry jelly.
But at the price point dictated by the changing menu, the lunch-only concept, and the decor, this little small-town, strip mall hybrid delivers on the implied promise that they'll give your grandmother a run for her money.
The little space in the residential strip delivers a little of the kind of low-key funky diner you'd find in larger cities. It's comfortable and the people are pleasant. You pay at the counter and bus your own dishes at the end of your meal. Soup is served in Styrofoam and sandwiches in plastic baskets so you'll have a little to overlook on the comfort food front.
But for value and a taste of home in the middle of a busy day, there's a great deal to enjoy.
Cracked Pepper
Address: 4955 17th St. S., Suite 124, Fargo
Cuisine: American
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Thursday; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Phone: (701) 356-0039
Reservations accepted: No
Alcohol: No
Dress: As you like
Credit cards accepted: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express
Food: 3
Service: 2½
Ambiance: 2½
This review was written exclusively for The Forum
Eric Daeuber is an instructor at Minnesota State Community and Technical College. Readers can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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We've seen Wookiee dogs, AT-AT dogs and Ewok cats, but this is the first Wampa Dog, and he couldn't be cuter.
Stockton Hill Animal Hospital writes:
Every year Dr. Andrews comes up with a new costume for her dog Chubbs. This year was no exception. Remember the Wampa monster from The Empire Strikes Back, that captures Luke and hangs him upside down in his cave, then Luke uses the force to grab his lightsaber and cut the Wampa's arm off and escapes? Well, this year Chubbs is the Wampug!


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Nature is a temple, in which living pillars Sometimes utter a babel of words; man traverses it through forests of symbols, that watch him with knowing eyes. Like prolonged echoes which merge far away in an opaque, deep oneness, as vast as darkness, as vast as light, perfumes, colors, and sounds answer each to each. There are perfumes fresh and cool as the bodies of children, mellow as oboes, green as fields; -and others that are perverse, rich and triumphant, That have the infinite expansion of infinite things, such as amber, musk, benjamin, and incense, which chant the ecstasies of the mind and senses. Charles Baudelaire, "Correspondances," Les Fleurs du mal, 1857
In the vast bulk of literature on Dale Chihuly, almost every known active and interactive verb and evocative poetic adjective has been used. Further, a great deal of analytical energy has been spent trying to reconcile his effervescent behavior with our more sober need for adult comprehension. I have contributed my own share of these verbs, adjectives, exhibitions, and images over the last fifteen years, since my first visit to his seductive Pilchuck commune in the early 1980s. Yet this artist seems always to be upping the ante, continually making things more difficult, both physically and intellectually, in the studio glass movement. I am now not so sure we will be able to encompass fully maestro Chihuly as he and his high-performance teams blow, spin, shape, and daringly reinvent glass art, pushing out into ever-larger spaces with a heavy rock music backbeat. Perhaps this is the way it should be, in the perverse spirit of life's incompatibilities and things unresolvable. We have been counseled about this existential truism long ago in Baudelaire's "Correspondances" ("Correlatives"), in which he wrote, "There are perfumes fresh and cool/…/That have the infinite expansion of infinite things/…/ which chant the ecstasies of the mind and senses.
This monograph offers the most complete visual outline of Chihuly's lifelong fascination with glass and his use of it to produce a wide range of dramatic visual and emotional effects. It also documents a profound acceptance of Chihuly by the general public and artist's energetic and unabashed pushing of glass into that public domain. Supported through numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, videos, large public commissions, and art magazine and news media pieces, Chihuly emerges as a phenomenon, an extravagant artist who aggressively enhances our daily lives and surroundings. His work seems part of our modern hyperactive and vanguard extension of the beauties found in Louis Comfort Tiffany's turn-of-the-century iridescent Favrile glass for stained-glass windows, vases, and art nouveau lamps.
We may supply the adulation, attention, and communal love needed by the artist. For his part of the bargain, Chihuly meets our needs to connect with an ecumenical, gregarious, yet vulnerable creator, one who is open and risk-taking, avoiding the intricate, esoteric strategies pursued by so many contemporary artists. Chihuly's manifest joy and enthusiasm for life and the world around him offer more accessible and attractive alternatives.
Chihuly, the driven and willful American, absorbs the two-thousand-year history of blown glass and transforms it. He exploits technologies and sensitivities and upsets purists by his excess of gesture, mannerist/baroque form, enormous scale, and simultaneously industrious, combative, friendly, and promotional behavior. Even working with others in his glass factory setting has not hindered the evolution of the personal Chihuly signature "style." It is at all times gestural, expressive, overloaded, engaging, and cherished. It should also be noted that his acceptance by critics and connoisseurs is not yet unanimous. There may indeed be jealousy and resistance to his bold crossover to grandiose installations, endless variations of his impossibly lush and organic objects, public relations sense, and his eloquent and touching recombinant raiding of world cultures.
How should we approach Chihuly's phenomenal rise in the art scene? His early installations are prescient but essentially parallel to contemporary, reactionary experiments with new materials and expansive siting. His subsequent small and tidy early works don't declare the revolution. What does he give us that others haven't, can't, or won't? Donald Kuspit's essay in this book provides an engaging array of proposals. But to begin, I suggest a return to Baudelaire's poem about Nature's "correlatives" that, like Chihuly, proceed from a "forest of symbols" to "prolonged echoes" merging in "an opaque, deep oneness, as vast as darkness, as vast as light, perfumes, colors, and sounds answer each to each." Chihuly's Glass Environments (1967-68), Pilchuck Pond (1971), and notably, his Glass Forest (1971) exude just such vast light, perfumes, and colors. Now, in his more current work, profound beauties are mixed with intonations of the sinister. One cannot enjoy his opulent Seaform shells of color, bulbous Chandeliers, or exquisite extrusions and tendrils without a subliminal recollection of a floating world of stinging nettles, poisonous Portuguese men-of-war, and otherworldly underwater dangers. We know that nature's most seductive and mesmerizing colors are reserved to attract prey to its most dangerous and deadly species. Glass, especially enormous disks and stacks of nested shapes, signals fearful caution of wounding and breakage. Regardless, we are irresistibly drawn in by the effects of Chihuly's works. We are held captive by the spell of this new contradictory world where hot colors are frozen in impossibly thin fused silica reanimated by strong light and shimmering reflection. Therefore, it may be that Chihuly is simply the best at plugging into our needs, being an extravagantly extroverted introvert who brilliantly subverts glass to enter the public psyche.
Chihuly is a luminist. He uses glass as a literal and metaphorical prism through which he projects both ambient and intense theatrical light to produce sublime, luminous effects. This connects him to the long history of art in which light is cherished, "otherworldly," and implies divine presence. It is the transporting elements for spirits, grace, godly presence, and ineffable mystery. From the beginning of human time we see all cultures worshiping light, a critical by-product of the life-giving sun. Later, the shimmering gold ground of medieval illuminated manuscripts and iconostases and the great Gothic rose windows fracture light into myriad animate sparkles to dazzle the eye and mind. Later still, the luminous wonder captured by J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, American Hudson River painters, French impressionists, and fauves have set the stage for the art of our time.
Henri Matisse may be a modern prism for viewing Chihuly's contemporary pursuit of luminous effects and beautiful organic form. Matisse found an attraction to the hot colors, sensuality, and transcendent light of the Mediterranean. He would spend more than half of his artistic life in Nice sanctifying his art, in both secular and nonsecular ways, through infusions of spirit-giving light. His thirty-five years on the Cote d'Azur were fundamental to this path. Yet it was the artist's brief trip to Tahiti in 1930 that provided the critical shock when Matisse personally experienced the effects of nature viewed through water. There, looking first down into the clear lagoons and then up through levels of water toward the sky, Matisse discovered the spectral shimmer of new underwater worlds. He saw marine creatures with strange colors and fanciful shapes. This exoticism and newly structured crystalline world would never leave Matisse's art. Chihuly's transparent sculptural organisms recall just such an Oceania.
In both artists, theatrical commissions provided defining moments: Matisse's remarkable sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo's Rouge et Noir (1938) and Chihuly's for Pelleas et Melisande (1993).For each artist these works enforced a unique synthesis of collaboration and the interplay between total visual effect and the role of physical form and action. Then, in the 1940s and 1950s, Matisse, severely hindered by physical ailments, developed his system of gouaches decoupees, highly inventive color-cuttings which could be put in place by his assistants. These, like Chihuly's environments of today, were additive, endlessly expansive decorative suites of cut and colored forms, floating in worlds of light. For example, Matisse's grandest room-size cutout, the Parakeet and the Mermaid (1952), is ablaze with flat colored leaf, coral, fruit, and animal shapes upon a vast white ground. Chihuly's carving and shaping of light and color in his Seaforms, Macchia, Persians, Venetians, and Floats make them all seem clear sculptural offspring. Further, Matisse's famous Chapel of the Rosary in Vence is a rich artistic and spiritual jewel, where the blues, greens, and yellows of his great stained-glass windows flicker with even more colors created by their visual blending in the air and upon all the chapel's exquisite tile surfaces. As our contemporary approximations, Chihuly's environmental gestalt of sexy, colored glass and hot light propel these qualities into our own lives and real space, whether we are in Seattle, Washington, D.C., or Venice, where visitors were most recently enthralled by his Chandeliers.
Finally, not unlike Matisse's severe medical problems after 1940, Chihuly's loss of the sight in his left eye in 1976 obliged him to find new ways of working, since his vision was "flattened." Chihuly moved to intermediary processes of drawing and a kind of orchestral choreography. This would allow him to objectify his art and to direct others. These others transform his two-dimensional schemes into a full visualization of the three-dimensional surround of space. The artist and workers also engage in the fourth dimension: duration. There is a literal passage of creative time and dynamic interrelationship. Chihuly's large, broadly gestural, high-color painted drawings start the process. These energetic renderings are his way of showing the glass teams, succinctly and provocatively, what he has in mind. Not mechanical blueprints, they are rough, two-dimensional versions of hoped-for three-dimensional creations. They communicate at most a need that the finished glass objects should actively diffuse, "paint," and flood areas with expansive veils of evanescent colored light.
Chihuly uses his sense of light to create abstracted expressions. He has a distinct, painterly approach. His light carves out the object and its reflection to create new kinds of space: physical, psychic, and visual. Chihuly has always been a sculptor of environmental spaces. He has made complex site-specific constructions from his earliest days, including experiments with neon and ice. He hit upon glass as a newly curious medium to carry on his interests. Chihuly perfected ways to build accumulative environments of any dimension. He broke the bounds of the conventional hand-blown glass object by creating installations in which hundreds of glass parts are spread over all the available space. Such additive, scaleless work is a characteristic of vanguard modern art, and Chihuly's aggressive use of unconventional materials has added yet another dimension and potential to its continued development.
His works seem made to delight our eyes, to dazzle with their visual effects and their evident tenuous hold on permanence. Glass inherently displays much of its creative history, recording both the improvised and calculated energies of its makers. We know that every one of these objects has been shaped by split-second decisions, with little room for error. The molten materials are quickly pulled from the furnace, inflated, spun, shaped, trimmed, manipulated, and fused onto other glass elements-and even if a work makes it through this birthing, it still might not live through the artist's selection process.
Chihuly and his workers are virtuosos. Aside from the usual meanings of virtuoso, in which great skill, bravura, ingenuity, and talent are manifest, other attributes pertain. For example, the root of virtuoso is virtue or vertu: goodness, power, and right action. By these right actions we have been freed from our inhibitions just as Chihuly has helped other artists break their own conventions to enter his world, one that runs on a parallel kinetic synesthesia reminiscent of Fantasia.
A keen observer, employing an unencumbered enthusiasm for the world around him Chihuly easily converts others to his cause. His colleagues (visiting artists and resident gaffers, assistants, archivists, administrators, packers, and installers) passionately engage in the artistic mission to create a profusion of things unexpected. They all challenge their conductor-choreographer Chihuly to do his best by doing their best. Mutually inspired, the collaborative troupe engages in a remarkable and surreal display of daring skill and beauty. By pushing the limits of glass, these powerful artists embody the passion and anxiety of their medium. They are a locus of joy and
wonder, in which More is More. I've never seen anyone look at a Chihuly who didn't respond, smile and appear buoyed by the experience. Viewers and collectors alike appear to have found a place of sincere personal refuge from our sometimes joyless and threatened lives. Chihuly has reflexively seized and directed these qualities into surprisingly new and persuasive dimensions.
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For young widow Ellen Wood, her Victorian home is a refuge—a place to feel safe with her eleven-year-old son, Charlie. But when money grows so tight that Ellen could lose the house, her sister, Hannah, makes a radical suggestion . . . rent out some of the rooms. Soon Ellen has three lodgers: Sabine, a German coworker of Hannah's, recently separated from her husband; Allegra, an eccentric but wise novelist; and Matt, an up-and-coming young journalist in search of his voice, who has just landed a plum job in London.
Ellen thinks three strangers are the last complication she needs, but they make her realize just how isolated she has become. Their presence exposes a secret she's been keeping hidden, as well as a conflict with her sister that is both shocking and revealing. And while a love affair with a younger man seems like a fantasy powered by her imagination, Ellen can't deny her deep connection to Matt, or the changes he inspires in her and her relationship with Charlie. Outside her home's sheltering walls lies a world of opportunity as well as danger. Now that she's had the courage to open the door, does Ellen dare step through?
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We purchased our home in May 1981 which was built in March of that year. We had some extra vinyl floor tiles and I noticed it had va stamped on the back of them. I am assuming these contain vinyl asbestos. I also understand that asbestos was banned in the early to mid '70's. How come the builders were still allowed to use products with it in it? We have deteriorating vinyl tiles in the kitchen and they will need to be removed before laying a new floor. Do we have any recourse with the builder?
They didn't even start talking about banning it until 1980. As it was still legal to sell it in 1980, odds are it was still legal to install in 1981. You have no recourse with the original builder.
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1. It may not be asbestos at all. The VA stamp could be a manufacturers code. If you have a loose piece, take it to someone who knows what to look for (Hint: Not a big box store employee).
2. Vinyl Asbestos tile is very stable and is not considered hazardous unless it is ground up or sanded. This is the 'Official" word on vinyl asbestos flooring:
Flooring that contains asbestos, when intact and in good condition, is generally considered nonfriable and is not hazardous. Heat, water, weathering or aging can weaken flooring to the point where it is considered friable. Friable flooring includes any material containing more than 1 percent asbestos that can be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder with hand pressure. This includes previously nonfriable flooring material which has been damaged to the extent that it may be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure. Flooring can also be made friable during its removal. Friable materials can release asbestos fibers into the air. Once in the air, asbestos fibers present a health hazard to people who inhale those fibers.
In other words, the asbestos in vinyl asbestos tile is in such a small amount and any fibers are locked inside the tile. Unless the material has deteriorated to the point that it's dusty or unless you aggressively remove it to the point that it crumbles and creates dust there is not much danger involved. Basic precautions of wearing full covering and breathing filters with possible water misting to control errant dust will keep you safe.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Jaybee,
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May not even need to remove it depending on what you plan on going over it with.
I too agree the VA may be more of a production code than a description of the products material list. But who knows?
As with lead paint, asbestos was allowed in the manufacturing process to a cut off day for an important reason. Manufacturing concerns [lobbyists} and bribe money delayed banning of such products with political clout. This is America and money talks when it comes to Congress. Yes I know a different department would be in charge of the task at hand. {I believe France banned lead paint about 1800 or so}.
While you can hire out to firm that can safely handle its removal you too can cover the product in question by yourself in most cases. Check you local listings.... Good luck, work safe...
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Rushworth residents Harry Ashton and Jake Thompson won the Campaspe Shire Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year awards, while Tongala's Shaun Mackrell was named Arts Person of the Year.
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The Effect of Kinesio Taping on Ankle Proprioception
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Last updated: May 1, 2013
Last verified: May 2013
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This study examines the effect of kinesiology tape on proprioception and postural control in subjects with sub-acute and chronic ankle sprains/strain.
Sprains and Strains
Other: KinesioTape
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Kinesio Taping on Ankle Proprioception
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MedlinePlus related topics: Balance Problems Sprains and StrainsU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Logan College of Chiropractic:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Joint Position sense testing and postural control (sway velocity center of pressure) [ Time Frame: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 of Study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- VAS [ Time Frame: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 of Study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Group 1
An elastic tape that will be placed on subject's ankles to determine whether ankle proprioception is improved
Other: KinesioTape
An elastic tape that will be placed on subject's ankles to determine whether ankle proprioception is improved
Detailed Description:
The a priori hypothesis of this study is that proprioception (knee repositioning error) and balance (sway velocity and center of pressure) will improve significantly after intervention (Kinesiotape) in participants with a history of acute or chronic ankle sprains/strains.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 65 Years
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Logan student, staff, or faculty
- Between the ages of 20 and 65
- Previous history of ankle instability/sprains
- A score of 6 out of 10 questions answered yes on the Functional Ankle Instability form will qualify the candidate
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|Study First Received:
|July 1, 2009
|Last Updated:
|May 1, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sprains and Strains
Wounds and Injuries
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Everyone had a good time together. We stayed together all the way. The scene along the Mesilau trail was fantastic – the montane forest, the waterfalls, the mountain streams. There were of course the dreaded steep stairs. One of the ironies of the Mesilau trail is there is a section of the trail up the mountain that actually goes downhill for almost an hour. As you go downhill, the thought at the back of everyone's mind is what goes down must come up. True enough, at the end of the downhill section awaits a long steep climb up. Strangely, this time, we met only one other group along the Mesilau trail……. You see, we had the entire trail almost exclusively to ourselves.
Arrived at Laban Rata at 3.45 pm. After a quick dinner, we went to bed at 8 pm. I, not surprisingly, did not sleep well. Woke up at 1.45 a.m., had a bite and we started the knee-breaking climb to the peak at 2.45 a.m. The Laban Rata to Sayat-Sayat is always the killer stretch – pitch dark, very cold and steep stairs. Take 20 steps, rest a minute. Take 10 steps, rest 2 minutes, take 5 steps, rest 3 minutes and so on. Your lungs feel like they are going to burst. Crawled to the peak at 7.15 a.m. The peak was gorgeous, the weather splendid, the feeling exhilarating and the knees, thighs and calves terribly sore. (BTW we also saw a rat right at the peak 4095 m). After the customary photo shoots, we trekked down to Laban Rata, had breakfast and hiked down to Timpohon. At 4.30 pm., we collected our certificates at the Kinabalu Park HQ.
After my 2nd attempt in 2007, I came to realize that the journey to the peak is more important than reaching the peak. If you are climbing the mountain, you must learn to appreciate the journey. You need to stop and smell the pitcher plants, touch the twisted trees and gaze at the marvelous rock faces. You need to take a million photos along the way. You need to take your time and talk gibberish with your climbing mates. Take as many breaks you want. Laugh at your physical suffering. There is so much to see, hear and enjoy along the way up and down. Do not be like many climbers who are always in a hurry, they rush up the mountain – very much focused on reaching the peak, take a photo at the peak and rush down again.
Let me tell you - climbing the Kinabalu is a physically-strenuous undertaking. If you not reasonably fit, you will really really suffer. If you fit, you will still suffer a little. But when you have good company along the way, appreciate the journey and don't take the climb to the peak too seriously, the challenge becomes easier. Never climb alone (why suffer the knee pain and muscle aches alone ?).
Last year, our group was the slowest and the last to reach the peak – we reached at almost 8.00 a.m. There are a lot of advantages being the last. The peak is empty and you have plenty of time to enjoy the summit, take photos and simply soak in the atmosphere. This year, our group was second last. A couple was slower than us (dang …). Still we had plenty of time at the peak. Next year our target remains the same – to be the last to reach the peak. There is no need to hurry. Just enjoy the journey. The peak, after all, is only a big pile of rocks. (BTW, the geological features are amazing… all geologists should go there at least once).
Our sector times this year
Mesilau to Laban Rata 8 hours
Laban Rata to Summit 4.5 hours
Summit to Laban Rata 2.5 hours
Laban Rata to Timpohon 4 hours
My favourite sector
Descending from Summit to Sayat-sayat
The most dreaded sector
Ascend from Laban Rata to Sayat-sayat
Number of pit stops
Best moment
Standing at the peak and looking down at all you miserable mortals.
We will be going again next June. If you want to come along, do let me know. There is only one condition to join our group. Everyone goes up together, everyone reaches the peak together, everyone comes down together (no matter how fit or weak you are).
Beginning of the climb at Mesilau (standing from left to right : Zainudin, Dicala, Charles & I. sitted Sani, Sathya and Debbie)
Three hours later at km 4. Still smiling
A pitcher plant along the way
At the summit at about 7.15 a.m. (We are on top of the world, you miserable lowland mortals)
Sathya, me, Sani & Zainudin on the way down from the peak
Sathya and I on the way down from the summit
Charles & I near the summit (we have been friends for 32 years)
Many folks are scared of this rope section
The group about to leave Laban Rata abt 11.00 a.m.
Great scenes along the descent from Laban Rata
Lovely scenery along the descent from Laban Rata


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2. Ryan Lavarnway (1), 25, catcher: Once considered a project behind the plate, Lavarnway was voted the best defensive catcher in the International League. Works counts and shows power potential.
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8. Ryan Kalish (4), 24, outfielder: After two wasted years because of injury, Kalish may finally get his chance to be a regular and not just an emergency fill-in.
9. Matt Barnes (15), 22, pitcher: Went 7-5 with a combined 2.86 ERA in Greenville and Salem. The first real test comes this season in Portland.
10. Allen Webster (NR), 22, pitcher: Also dealt in the Dodgers trade, Webster was considered Los Angeles' No. 2 prospect. Raw talent. Had 129 strikeouts (and 61 walks) in 130 innings in Double-A last year.
11. Drake Britton (NR), 23, pitcher: Had bounce-back season this year (3.72) in Portland. A lefty with good stuff, Britton could be close to Boston if he keeps up his command..
12. Steven Wright (NR), 28, pitcher: Obtained from the Indians in the Lars Anderson trade, Wright's knuckleball can be devastating at times. Had a 2.54 combined ERA in Double-A and Triple-A. Smart for the Red Sox to keep him around.
13. Stolmy Pimentel (NR), 22, pitcher: Pimentel is entering his third season on the 40-man roster. Brilliant at times, but inconsistent, he may get another chance to start, or begin 2013 in the bullpen.
14. Juan Carlos Linares (NR), 28, outfielder: Another darkhorse. Maybe it's his age, but Linares gets little attention as a prospect. Linares can hit and hit for power. He could be major-league ready this year.
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